Toronto native Deanna Petcoff writes ‘happy songs about sad things’ and new single ‘Stage Lights’ captures this perfectly. Opening with a Kim Deal-esque bass line, Deanna starts to look back on a night where she felt a spark with a touring musician and asks ‘What if?’ She wonders what might have been if instead of…
LA-based indie-poppers Cosmo Gold have shared the video for ‘Drown the Fly’, a song that appears on their new EP ‘Waiting on the City’. With shotgun guitars at the forefront, a danceable samba-inspired rhythm section and plenty of cowbell that would fit nicely next to Two Door Cinema Club, Barrie or Future Islands, it’s a…
(Sandy) Alex G has shared the stunning Zev Magasis-directed video for new single ‘Gretel’ and announced details of his ninth (!) album ‘House of Sugar’. His third LP to be released via Domino, it will be released on 13 September. ‘Gretel’ finds the Philadelphia native dipping into elements of psychedelia, shoegaze and emo with idiosyncratic…
‘Box’, the new single from Seattle trio Dude York opens with Peter Richards proclaiming: ‘It started with a kiss, who’d have thought it would end like this in a total eclipse? You broke my heart with your ruby lips’. It’s a power pop-infused three-and-a-half minutes that throws together elements of Guided by Voices and early…
The Divine Comedy’s blend of heartfelt romanticism, magnetic melodies and witty, sometimes very cutting, observations has always been a winner and now after 30 years (!), Neil Hannon is set to release his twelfth album in this guise – ‘Office Politics’. Inspired by the soap opera that is the workplace, the record is 16 songs…
Leeds-based Living Body have shared new single ‘C.R.E.A.M.’. Self-described as ‘post-Brexitcore’, all the instruments on the track have been played, recorded and mixed by Jeff T. Smith and the track combines shoegazey melodies with pining vocals (you can hear the passion as Jeff sings ‘Opening up to Heaven’s Gate… Won’t you come and take me…
The next release on Devil Town Tapes is ‘wyd’ by Bournemouth-based solo artist ‘omes’ (Omar De Col to friends and family). Described by the label as a ‘short and sweet ode to an internet friendship’, the 90 seconds has a distinctly lo-fi sound that just adds to its charm. With its hushed and introspective lyrics…
Following stellar support from 6Music and shows with bands including Flamingods, Mush and Crocodiles, Sunderland four-piece Roxy Girls have signed to Moshi Moshi Records and announced details of their forthcoming mini album ‘A Poverty of Attention’ (pre-order here). ‘Trials and Tribulations’ is the first song to be taken from the release and finds the band…
Canadian indie rockers Wintersleep have shared the video for ‘Forest Fire’; a song that features on their seventh album ‘In the Land of’. The video is directed, animated and edited by Christopher Mills of Number Four Films and finds Mother Nature conquering all as she takes revenge for the way the human race has treated…
After almost five years away, The Appleseed Cast have returned with new single ‘Time the Destroyer’. It will appear on the emo legends’ new album ‘The Fleeting Light of Impermanence’ (out via Graveface Records on 28 June). There’s an experimental and industrial edge to the first half of the song, with its synthy stabs and…
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